About Gilles Leroy
Born 1958. Gilles Leroy is a French writer, biographer, novelist, essayist and journalist.
Gilles Leroy (; born 28 December 1958 in Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French writer. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, which appears in his 1996 novel Les Maîtres du monde as the "Lycée Ducasse". His novel Alabama song won the Prix Goncourt in 2007.
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Gilles Leroy was born on 28 December 1958 in Bagneux.
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Gilles Leroy is a writer, biographer, novelist, essayist and journalist.
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